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Standing at the rostrum of the House of Representatives, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu directly challenged the Obama administration’s top foreign policy goal Tuesday, saying negotiations with Iran were headed for “a very bad deal; we’re better off without it.” As Republican members of Congress applauded loudly, and many Democrats glared, Netanyahu laid out his case for opposing the administration’s course. The proposed deal has two major flaws, he said. One is that it would leave Iran’s nuclear infrastructure largely intact. The other, on which he put the greatest emphasis, is a sunset provision that would allow Iran to gradually escape...

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Standing at the rostrum of the House of Representatives, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu directly challenged the Obama administration’s top foreign policy goal Tuesday, saying negotiations with Iran were headed for “a very bad deal; we’re better...

The Obama administration opened an all-out effort Monday to sell its nuclear diplomacy with Iran, laying out the case for a negotiated deal as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu prepared to mount an unprecedented challenge to the policy in an...

The setting will be a joint meeting of the U.S. Congress, but Benjamin Netanyahu's most crucial audience may be the one back home: the Israeli electorate.
The Israeli prime minister's planned speech on Tuesday, two weeks before Israel's general...

When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses Congress on Tuesday about the dangers posed by Iran's nuclear program, he will have to overcome the deafening political static created by the circumstances of his invitation. Not only did House...

A new travel warning for Israel, issued Feb. 18, notes that "U.S. citizens need to be aware of continuing risks of travel" to the Gaza Strip, the West Bank and some metro areas, "including Tel Aviv and Haifa and surrounding regions,"...

To the editor: Yuli Edelstein is correct in asking everyone in the United States to heed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's message. ("Benjamin Netanyahu's speech to Congress comes at right time, right place," op-ed, Feb. 26)
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In their first Oval Office meeting, in May 2009, President Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu smiled, shook hands and pledged to do everything possible to keep Iran from getting a nuclear weapon.
That united front — and their personal...

The negotiating endgame with Iran is upon us. What terms are acceptable?U.N. Security Council resolutions dating to 2006 have demanded that Iran suspend its enrichment of uranium, which can be used for bomb making as well as electricity. Israel and many...

Imagine for a moment that your neighbor down the street was engaged in some basement science that could level your house and even kill you, if he so desired. Your best friend, who happens to live some distance away, out of harm's reach, can end the threat...

A federal jury in New York has found the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority liable for a series of terrorist attacks that killed or wounded Americans in Israel during the early 2000s, officials announced Monday.
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Israel's electric company cut off power Monday to more than 700,000 Palestinians in two major West Bank cities and nearby villages, and warned that more outages are coming if Palestinian officials don't pay millions of dollars in outstanding debt.
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The young Israeli couple are waiting nervously for the babysitter before an evening out. Hearing a knock at the door, they open it to a most surprising sight: Prime Minister Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu is standing with a sly grin on their...

These are uneasy times in Israel.
Tension between Israelis and Palestinians has escalated since the collapse of American-brokered peace talks last year.
Thousands of foreign fighters, some of them reportedly Israeli Arabs, have poured into neighboring...

The gunman believed to have carried out two deadly attacks in Copenhagen was on the intelligence service’s radar and may have been inspired by Islamic State, Danish officials said Sunday.
The suspected killer was fatally shot by police early Sunday,...

Danish police shot and killed a man early Sunday suspected of carrying out shooting attacks at a free speech event and then at a Copenhagen synagogue, killing a Danish documentary filmmaker and a member of the Scandinavian country's Jewish community. Five...

My brother-in-law treated our family (12 of us) to a guided tour in Israel. Our guide, Arik, was superb. Nothing fazed him, and he was great in his dealings with us. As a tour guide, he was able to contend with our 6- and 8-year-olds, their grandma of...

Following days of controversy that engulfed Israel’s most prestigious national award, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agreed Friday under an order from the nation's attorney general to reinstate two judges for the Israel Prize.
Earlier this week, in...